Pharmacists' role in reporting adverse drug reactions in an international perspective

Abstract

The appreciation of pharmacists' ADR reports is high in those countries that have more experience with greater numbers of pharmacists' reports. The countries that received fewer reports from pharmacists gave lower scores to their contribution. If the specific contribution pharmacists can make to the quantity and quality of ADR reports were to be exploited to a greater extent, this could lead to a substantial improvement of the international adverse drug reactions reporting system.

Adverse-drug-event rates for high-cost and high-use drugs in the intensive care unit

“…12,[25][26][27][28] This study was designed to aid in prioritizing the pharmacist's efforts with high-cost and high-use medications based on the frequency of ADEs in these groups and the importance of patient safety. There was a 32% difference in the number of medications associated with ADEs between the high-cost and high-use groups.…”

Effective Reporting by Pharmacist in Pharmacovigilance Programme of India

“…Pharmacist plays an important role in field of medicinal drugs including safety of drugs, i.e., Pharmacovigilance [1]. The occurrence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) through any drug is very frequent now days.…”

“…The role of pharmacist in the reporting ADRs is not appreciated globally on contrary India is among those countries that widely accepts and promotes ADRs reporting through pharmacist. [5] As stated in literature many countries are accepting ADR reporting from pharmacist yet very few offend the same [1,6,7] . Contribution is bit high in countries like Canada, USA, Australia, Netherland, Spain and Japan [8].…”

Impacto clínico de un sistema de farmacovigilancia activa realizado por un farmacéutico en el reporte y subnotificación de reacciones adversas a medicamentos

“…Es por esto que un programa de farmacovigilancia permanente es una estrategia fundamental para detectar y prevenir las RAM de manera efectiva, e influir positivamente en la calidad de la atención al paciente 8 . La contribución de profesionales farmacéuticos en la notificación voluntaria de RAM promueve un mayor número de notificaciones de ellas, llegando en algunos casos ser responsables de 40% de los reportes generados anualmente 16,17 . Sin embargo, en Chile no existen estudios publicados que muestren el alcance que tiene un farmacéutico en un sistema de farmacovigilancia activa.…”